In the late 1970s Woes argued that prokaryotes account for two of the three major branches of organisms because:
A) prokaryotes carry on photosynthesis.
B) the genome of methane producing bacteria has been completed.
C) eukaryotes are assigned to super groups.
D) of differences in sequence analysis of 16sRNA of different group of prokaryotes.
E) there are molecular similarities among Archaea, Bacteria, & Eukarya .

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Woese's argument was based on differences in the sequence analysis of 16S rRNA, which revealed distinct evolutionary lineages, leading to the classification of Archaea and Bacteria as separate domains.

In the Late 1970s Woes Argued That Prokaryotes Account for Two